About Vuna

Vuna understands that climate change is seriously impacting Africa’s most important sector: agriculture. It is making already difficult farming in East and Southern Africa even harder. Farmers have to adapt their practices to changing weather patterns while also dealing with a lack of access to agricultural inputs, information, finance and markets.

Over the last 25 years average annual temperatures have increased by 1 to 2 degrees C and a similar rise is expected over the next 30 years. Drought is already endemic, but may become more frequent and unpredictable. Rainfall intensity is also expected to increase which is likely to lead to more erosion and flooding.

With these challenges in mind, Vuna is working to drive transformative change in the agriculture sector, to build the climate resilience of smallholder farmers in East and Southern Africa.

Key Challenges for Agriculture

Of food production in sub-Saharan Africa depends on 9 crops under threat due to climate change.

%

Of the African population are involved in agriculture for their livelihoods.

1 in 5

people will live in sub-Saharan Africa by 2050.

by 2050

Food demand in sub-Saharan Africa is expected to triple.

Vuna is a DFID-funded regional climate smart agriculture programme, implemented by Adam Smith International. Vuna works in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe to build the climate resilience of smallholder farmers in the region